722 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Simmons, delegates Charles Lathrop and appropriation as may be necessary 



Pack, E. A. Sterling, Col. W. R. Brown, to stamp out insect and fungous attacks 



Dr. H. S. Drinker and P. S. Ridsdale which threaten to spread to other 



of the American Forestry Association, States. We cite for emulation the ex- 



and a number of others. penditure by Pennsylvania of $275,000 



Following these discussions a com- to combat the chestnut blight, and the 



mittee consisting of Messrs. Drinker, large appropriation by Massachusetts 



Besley, Simmons, Hardtner and Rids- to control insect depredation, and urge 



dale presented resolutions to the Con- greater congressional appropriation for 



servation Congress of which the follow- similar work by the Bureau of Ento- 



ing were adopted : mology. 



"Believing that the necessity of pre- "Holding that conservative forest 

 serving our forests and forest industries management and reforestation by pri- 

 is so generally realized that it calls only vate owners are very generally discour- 

 for constructive support along specific aged or prevented by our methods of 

 lines : forest taxation, we recommend State 

 "We recommend the work of the legislation to secure the most moderate 

 Federal Forest Service, and uige our taxation of forest land consistent with 

 constituent bodies and all citizens to justice and the taxation of the forest 

 insist upon more adequate appropria- crop upon such land only when the crop 

 tions for this work, and to combat any is harvested and returns revenue where- 

 attempt to break down the integrity of with to pay the tax. 

 the national forest system by reductions "\Ye appreciate the increasing sup- 

 in area or transfer to State authority, port of lumbermen of forestry reforms 

 "Since Federal cooperation under the and suggest particularly to forest 

 Weeks law is stimulating better forest owners the study and emulation of the 

 protection by the States, and since the many cooperative patrol associations 

 appropriation for such cooperative work which are doing extensive and efficient 

 is nearly exhausted, we urge appropria- forest fire work and also securing closer 

 tion by Congress for its continuance. relations between private, State and 

 "We recommend that the Federal Federal forest agencies. Believing that 

 troops be made systematically available lumbermen and public have a common 

 for emergency service in controlling object in perpetuating the use of forests, 

 forest fires. we indorse every means of bringing 

 "Deploring the lack of uniform State them together in mutual aid and con- 

 activity in forest work we emphatically fidence to this end." 

 urge the crystallization of effort in the During the sessions a paper by Chief 

 lagging States toward securing the crea- Forester Henry S. Graves, who was 

 tion of forest departments with definite unable to be present, was read. A 

 and ample appropriations, in no case of portion of it appears in another section 

 less than $10,000 per annum, to enable of this issue. 



the organization of forest fire work, At the Friday session of the Congress 



publicity propaganda, surveys of forest Major Everett G. Griggs, president of 



resources and general investigations the National Lumber Manufacturers 



upon which to base the earliest possible Association, read a paper in which he 



development of perfected and liberally criticised the manner in which choice 



financed forest policies. timberlands have been exchanged and 



"We recommend in all States more defended the association of which he 



liberal appropriation for forest fire pre- is president, declaring the body is not 



vention, especially for patrol to obviate an unlawful combination of manufac- 



expenditure for fighting neglected fires, turers. He declared the greatest de- 



and the expenditure of such effort in velopment in forest conservation and 



the closest possible cooperation with fire prevention originated in such asso- 



Federal and private protective agencies ; ciations, and that the principal theories 



and also urge such special legislation advocated by conservationists are upper- 



